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fashions and good friends to help
celebrate her wedding anniversary
– if only her husband would
remember. The woman who seems
to have it all is about to have a
midlife crisis.
WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER
Signore & Signore: Leading Ladies
of Italian Cinema Single Bill –
Stefania Sandrelli
I KNEW
HER WELL 15 9.00PM
(Io la conoscevo bene)
(Antonio Pietrangeli, Italy, 1965) 97m
subtitles. With Stefania Sandrelli,
Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi
Vivacious and sexy in an
androgynous sort of way Stefania
Sandrelli is at her best starring
as a lonely, sickly country woman
trying to survive in a hostile post-
World War II city.
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER
Signore & Signore: Leading Ladies
of Italian Cinema Single Bill –
Silvana Mangano
THEOREM 15 6.45PM
(Teorema)
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy 1968) 98m
subtitles. With Terence Stamp,
Silvana Mangano, Laura Betti
Starring two of the director’s
favourite actresses Silvana
Mangano and Laura Betti. On the
tale of a mysterious stranger who
enters a household and seduces
each family member in turn TIME
OUT comments: “Pasolini achieved
his most perfect fusion of Marxism
and religion with a film that is both
political allegory and mystical
fable.”
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER
Signore & Signore: Leading Ladies
of Italian Cinema Single Bill –
Monica Vitti
A DRAMA OF
JEALOUSY 15 8.45PM
(Dramma della gelosia)
(Ettore Scola, Italy, 1970) 107m
subtitles. With Monica Vitti, Marcello
Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini
A freewheeling satire of Italian
mores, hilarious despite its
outwardly morbid plotline. The
murder of a flower girl (Vitti)
triggers a long flashback involving
18
her, a middle-aged Communist
bricklayer (Mastroianni) and a
young pizza chef (Giannini).
FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER
Joe Wright Double Bill
PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE U 6.20PM
(Joe Wright, UK, 2005) 125m
With Keira Knightley, Matthew
MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland
Based on Jane Austen’s novel
about the five Bennett sisters
whose lives are turned upside
down when a wealthy young man
(Mr. Bingley) and his best friend
(Mr. Darcy) arrive in town.
PLUS
ATONEMENT 15 8.45PM
(Joe Wright, UK, 2007) 112m. With
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy,
Ramola Garai
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a
13-year-old, irrevocably changes
the course of several lives when
she accuses her older sister’s
(Knightley) lover (McAvoy) of a
crime he did not commit. Based on
a novel by Ian McEwan and
handled with a great deal of skill.
SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER
Afternoon and Evening Joe Wright
Double Bill
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
U 1.40PM AND 6.20PM
(Joe Wright, UK, 2005) 125m
PLUS
ATONEMENT 15
4.05PM AND 8.45PM
(Joe Wright, UK, 2007) 112m
Please see Friday 26 October for
synopses.
SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER
Three Colours Trilogy
THREE COLOURS:
BLUE 15 4.30PM
(Krzysztof Kieslowski, France, 1993)
110m subtitles. With Juliette Binoche
The film movingly recounts the
story of a woman’s reaction to the
death of her husband and child in
a car crash.
PLUS
THREE COLOURS:
WHITE 15 6.40PM
(Krzysztof Kieslowski, France, 1993)
92m subtitles
A Polish hairdresser is unable to
cope with life in Paris. Smuggled
back to Poland he rebuilds his life
there in an attempt to win back
his estranged French wife.
PLUS
THREE COLOURS:
RED 18 8.15PM
(Krzysztof Kieslowski, France, 1994)
99m subtitles
A young woman runs over a dog.
This sets off a chain of events
which are devastating to all
concerned. Kieslowski’s final
romantic salute.
Tickets £8.00/£7.00 concessions
MONDAY 29 OCTOBER
British Classics Double Bill
BILLY LIAR PG 6.45PM
(John Schlesinger, UK, 1963) 94m
With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie,
Wilfred Pickles
Billy Fisher (Courtenay) dreams of
escape from his dull working-class
family and his job as an
undertaker’s assistant.
Unfortunately he regularly escapes
into a fantasy world and blurs the
time between fantasy and reality,
hence his name. Based on the play
by Keith Waterhouse, the film
launched Julie Christie’s career.
PLUS
WITHNAIL AND I 15 8.40PM
(Bruce Robinson, UK 1986) 107m
With Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann,
Richard Griffiths
Withnail and I are two waiting-tobe
actors. Withnail is a
cadaverous upper middle-class
man with an acid wit who is totally
selfish, and I is an innocent
paranoid abroad. They share a flat
and live on a diet of booze, pills
and fags in 60s Camden. A film
truly deserving of the muchabused
word, “cult”.
TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER
Double Bill
RED ROAD 18 6.45PM
(Andrea Arnold, UK, 2006) 113m
With Katie Dickie, Tony Curran,
Martin Compston
Jackie (Dickie) works as a CCTV
operator. Each day she watches over
a small part of Glasgow protecting
the people living their lives under
her gaze. One day a man who she
thought she would never see again
appears on her monitor. A haunting
revenge drama.
PLUS
HALLAM FOE 18 9.00PM
(Daniel Mackenzie, UK, 2007) 95m
With Ciaran Hinds, Jamie Bell
Hallam’s (Bell) talent for spying on
people reveals his darkest fears
and his most peculiar desires.
Driven to expose the true cause of
his mother’s death he instead finds
himself searching the rooftops of
the city for love.
WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER
Signore & Signore: Leading Ladies
of Italian Cinema Single Bill –
Mariangela Melato
THE SEDUCTION
OF MIMI 18 6.20PM
(Mimi’ metallurgico ferito
nell’onno)
(Lina Wertmuller, Italy, 1972) 121m
subtitles. With Giancarlo Gianni,
Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro
Carmelo Mardocheo (Giannini)
considers himself a socialist, so
when the local elections in Sicily
are held he rejects the local right
wing candidate as he thought the
Mafia were controlling him. He
goes to work in Turin where he
meets someone who will change
his life.
WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER
Signore & Signore: Leading Ladies
of Italian Cinema Single Bill –
Ornella Muti
THE BISHOP’S
BEDROOM 15 8.40PM
(La stanza del vescovo)
(Dino Risi, Italy, 1977) 100m subtitles
With Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti,
Gabriella Giacobbe
An exceptional 1977 dramatic film
from Dino Risi, a director known
mainly for his social satires. The
almond-eyed Ornella Muti finds
herself at the centre of a romantic
triangle involving her older
brother-in-law (Tognazzi) and
a young drifter.